Engineering Branch Selection Associate Professor Bill Wong Deputy Head & Director of Teaching Department of Civil Engineering Monash University

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1 Engineering Branch Selection Associate Professor Bill Wong Deputy Head & Director of Teaching Department of Civil Engineering Monash University CIVIL ENGINEERING The Exciting Choice

2 Outline of Presentation Introduction Employment Opportunities Course Details Discussion/Question Time

3 What do Civil Engineers do? Work on BIG projects Always working directly with community Provide water, food, shelter, safety Provide communication, transport, recreation, etc.

4 Major construction e.g. CityLink

5 Major construction e.g. Eastlink

6 Water supply, dams, spillways, flood management

7 Pipelines

8 Bridges

9 Grand Canyon Skywalk

10 Sports Stadia

11 2008 Beijing Olympics CCTV building 2012 London Olympics

12 Structural Engineering Dubai s Dynamic Tower Yet another amazingly ambitious construction project has been launched for Dubai. At the Plaza Hotel in New York Dr David Fisher of Dynamic Group showed off the plans for the Dynamic Tower in Dubai. The $700 million project is an 80-story building where each floor rotates so that everyone gets a 360-degree view (the full rotation takes between one and three hours). The tower will have 10 full floor apartments in which the owner can control the rotation. The rest of the floors will include a luxury hotel. hl=en&source=vgc&um=1&ie=utf8&sa=x&oi=video_result_group& resnum=8&ct=title#

13 Burj Dubai Dubai (Khalifa) Tower

14 Green Wall Green Roof

15 Racing Circuits

16 Rail Transport Road Bicycle Safety

17 Municipal Waste

18 What are the main areas of Civil Engineering? Environmental Engineering Transport Engineering Water Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Structural Engineering

19 Some Civil Engineering Projects Sydney Opera House West Gate Bridge New Stand - MCG City Link, Eastlink Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme Channel Tunnel Panama Canal Many international projects

20 What skills do Civil Engineers need? MUST be multi-skilled Keep in mind the big picture Communication Management Creativity Common sense

21 Who employs Civil Engineers? Many Civil Engineers work in industry South East Asia loves our graduates - travel opportunities are common University graduates as researchers

22 Employment Prospects 97.8% employment rate (The Age, 16 July 2008) Median starting salary on graduation $58,000 pa (2012 report) Civil Department graduates approximately 100 students per year

23 Career prospects Monash produced most CEO in Australia (The Age, 29 August 2012) The universities that had educated the highest numbers of chief executives were the University of New South Wales and Monash University The undergraduate degrees held by the business elite were most commonly in economics, business and engineering.

24 Where do Civil Engineers Work? Big and small engineering consultants and construction companies: Leighton, John Holland, Arup, AECOM, One Steel Shell, Mobil, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto RACV, VicRoads, DOI, EPA Melbourne Water, Eastern Energy Reebok, NASA Banks, Management consultants Universities first class research at Monash

25 What is in our Course at Monash? Wide range of subjects to give you skills Transport, water, soils & structures Flexibility to study at your own pace Management stream Computing opportunities Site visits

26 Project Based Learning Some Group Projects Undertaken in Civil Engineering - construction and testing of a mini steel bridge - laboratory work on soils - concrete column fabrication and testing - design of multi-storey car park - design of highway bypass - field trips: Studley Park, Warragal Treatment Plant

27 Laboratory work

28 Hands-on experience Model structure construction Testing

29 Vacation Work Need to complete 12 weeks practical experience before graduating Recommended after 2 nd and 3 rd year 12 weeks summer research (with scholarship) in the Department Gain experience that assists in 4 th year Further develop skills learnt in course Possibility of gaining graduate employment

30 Research at Monash Civil: structures, water, transport, geotechnical Strengthening of Monash Impact Freeway of In-vehicle navigation systems on travel Bridge over Warrigal behaviour Road CO 2 Sequestration Transport and land use interaction Biofiltration (vegetated soilbased media)

31 Water resources... Worldwide: More than 1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water More than 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation Water resources in many areas of Australia are either close to their sustainable yields or already over-committed

32 Biofilters Add Ana s Water project photos water cities Porous Pavement Pre-Treatment System

33 New degree in 2013 Mining Engineering Common first year entry

34 Score Score Score Course experience 60.0 questionnaire Completed by graduates 4 months after graduation Question 80.0 Questions: 1. Generic Skills Scale 2. Good Teaching Scale 3. Overall Satisfaction Scale 4. Measure - Grad Qualities Scale Course Experience Questionnaire - Civil Engineering 2011 Course Experience Questionnaire - Civil Engineering Course Experience Questionnaire - Civil Engineering 2009 University of Western Australia University of Adelaide Monash Not University Go Question Question University of Melbourne University of Adelaide University of New South Wales University of Melbourne University of Queensland University University of New of Sydney South Wales University of Western University Australia of Queensland Not Go8 University of Sydney University of Western Australia Not Go8 Monash University University of Adelaide University of Melbourne University of New South Wales University of Queensland University of Sydney Monash University

35 NEWS!! Free calculator to every Level 2 Civil student

36 Please Consider!

37 Student Perspective Bryce Fryar, Richa Sethi And Dusha Dayananda

38 Why Civil Engineering? Unrestricted: Water Systems Geo Transport Structures Project Management Environmental Real Life Projects, Visible Outcomes

39 Why Civil Engineering? Hands on Degree field trips, Construction, Tests and Models Can work anywhere. Underground, middle of the sea, overseas, developing countries. Have a real impact on communities around the world.

40 What s the course/faculty like? Excellent Staff Open door Policy Community feel through The Association of Civil Engineering Students and our Student Reps. A strong link to Industry through: Industry funded research Guest Industry Lectures Industry Networking events New High-Tech Civil engineering home rooms Lots of Vacation Work Opportunities

41 Course Structure 1st Year: Structures only (this is only a small part of Civil Engineering) 2nd & 3rd Year: A combination of all disciplines 4th Year: Your choice of classes Need to specialize in at least 2 disciplines (this keeps your future work options open) Can choose 2 out-of-faculty classes (anything!) Includes final year project and engineering practice

42 The Final Year FINAL YEAR PROJECT: Full year project Half Semester project CIVIL PRACTICE: In groups of 4 5 people with one student from each discipline ( Structures, Geotechnical, Water, Traffic and Environmental) Design the project from the initial stages to the final construction stages. Real world situation: e.g Green Chemicals Futures Facility

43 Vacation Work Yarra Valley Water Largest of Melbourne s water supply and sewerage service providers and are Government owned What I did? Managed the design and construction of the project

44 Vacation Work John Holland Major Contractor/Construction Firm What I did?